The Expanded National Representative Table (MRNA) of the PIT-CNT voted to support the 24-hour general strike of men and women on March 8 (8M), International Women’s Day, with a mobilization for the repeal of the urgent law consideration (LUC) that day, confirmed the general secretary of the trade union center, Elbia Pereira, to The Observer.
The decision had been voted unanimously at the Representative Table on February 10, but the Feminist Intersocial and four unions presented their objections. The first, for the inclusion of the LUC within the activities of the 8M. The unions, meanwhile, asked that the strike only be for women.
This led the Executive Secretariat to decide to call the MRNA to review the decision this Friday. The Gender Secretariat of the trade union center remained in agreement with the strike as voted in the first instance, as it learned The Observer.
The board decided to add a statute that enables subsidiaries to implement the strike in the way they deem most convenient. In this way, essential services – such as transportation or health – will be able to join the cause and not stop, he explained to The Observer, Secretary General Elbia Pereira.
